
A respected financial company is downsizing, and one of the victims is the risk-management division head, who was working on a major analysis just when he was let go. His protégé completes the study late into the night, then frantically calls his colleagues in about the company's financial disaster he has discovered. What follows is a long night of panicked double-checking and double-dealing as the senior management prepare to do whatever it takes to mitigate the coming deb... (Full plot summary below)
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A respected financial company is downsizing, and one of the victims is the risk-management division head, who was working on a major analysis just when he was let go. His protégé completes the study late into the night, then frantically calls his colleagues in about the company's financial disaster he has discovered. What follows is a long night of panicked double-checking and double-dealing as the senior management prepare to do whatever it takes to mitigate the coming debacle even as the handful of conscientious comrades find themselves dragged along into the unethical abyss.
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| Globe and MailStephen ColeChandor's shrewdest bit of business is figuring out how to make an A-list movie with a $3.5-million budget. Solution: buy low, sell high. Hire last decade's A-list – Spacey, Irons and Demi Moore – and give them their best parts in years. |
| NOW TorontoNorman WilnerKevin Spacey is flat-out brilliant as a company lifer in the awful position of knowing what's coming but being powerless to stop it. |
| Washington PostMichael O'SullivanChandor's film goes a long way toward making understandable - in vivid, cinematic terms - what exactly happened to make that first big domino fall over. |
| Toronto StarPeter HowellIt's a realistic take on what happens when high-flying money speculators suddenly hit ground. It's also a great calling card for J.C. Chandor, the writer/director making his feature debut. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsLouis ProyectA riveting drama that puts Oliver Stone's latest Wall Street movie and the HBO "Too Big to Fail" to shame. |
| DeadspinWill LeitchGets the little details right, the way everyone is one bad week away from being homeless, the way you can have a conversation with a colleague with the cleaning lady standing in between you and no one will ever even acknowledge that she's there. |
| MSN.comSean AxmakerChandor is more interested in the banality of greed and opportunism and the ease in which principled employees are swayed to engage in unprincipled acts. |
| The Ooh TrayEd WhitfieldA commendably sober and even handed drama, that gives the much loathed bankers human faces (tethered to animal metaphors, notably fat cats and dead dogs), while noting the culture of profligacy and flippancy within which they operate. |
| Film Journal InternationalBruce FeldAn investment firm facing extinction in the 2008 fiscal crisis has less than a day to navigate its inevitable crash. Writer-director J.C. Chandor's debut feature is as powerful as it is topical. |
| The OklahomanBrandy McDonnellMargin Call ranks among the top dramas ever made about Wall Street. |